It’s Saturday afternoon and you’re starting to feel a bit down as you have no great plans for this evening, but then your friend rings with great news and tells you to cheer up and that all is not lost.

Feedback is the food of motivation, in my world. If you DO give a quick look at this little e-book, and let me know if you think I’m on the right lines with this, I will gladly produce more, on whichever topic you suggest.

Native English speakers use many idioms and idiomatic expressions every day, perhaps even without realising it, as these expressions are so common in our everyday speech, the meaning is understood immediately by other native speakers.